Bill Text: NY S02392 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to child support for children attending a college ROTC program, a military college, a military preparatory school or one of the United States military academies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-09 - referred to judiciary [S02392 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02392-Amended.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        2392--A
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 22, 2015
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  Sen. MARTINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Judiciary  --  committee
         discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
         to said committee
       AN  ACT to amend the domestic relations law and the family court act, in
         relation to child  support  for  children  attending  a  college  ROTC
         program,  a  military college, a military preparatory school or one of
         the United States military academies
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Paragraph  f of subdivision 1 of part B of section 236 of
    2  the domestic relations law, as amended by chapter 281  of  the  laws  of
    3  1980, is amended to read as follows:
    4    f.  The  term  "child support" shall mean a sum paid pursuant to court
    5  order or decree by either or both parents or pursuant to a valid  agree-
    6  ment  between  the  parties  for  care, maintenance and education of any
    7  unemancipated child under the age of twenty-one years. FOR  PURPOSES  OF
    8  THIS  PARAGRAPH, A CHILD UNDER THE AGE OF TWENTY-ONE YEARS WHO ATTENDS A
    9  COLLEGE RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING  CORPS  (ROTC)  PROGRAM,  A  MILITARY
   10  COLLEGE, A MILITARY PREPARATORY SCHOOL OR ONE OF THE UNITED STATES MILI-
   11  TARY ACADEMIES SHALL NOT BE DEEMED EMANCIPATED SOLELY FOR ATTENDING SUCH
   12  EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION.
   13    S 2. Subparagraph 2 of paragraph (b) of subdivision 1-b of section 240
   14  of  the  domestic  relations law, as added by chapter 567 of the laws of
   15  1989, is amended to read as follows:
   16    (2) "Child support" shall mean a sum to  be  paid  pursuant  to  court
   17  order  or decree by either or both parents or pursuant to a valid agree-
   18  ment between the parties for care,  maintenance  and  education  of  any
   19  unemancipated  child  under the age of twenty-one years. FOR PURPOSES OF
   20  THIS SUBPARAGRAPH, A CHILD UNDER THE AGE OF TWENTY-ONE YEARS WHO ATTENDS
   21  A COLLEGE RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS (ROTC)  PROGRAM,  A  MILITARY
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD07787-02-5
       S. 2392--A                          2
    1  COLLEGE, A MILITARY PREPARATORY SCHOOL OR ONE OF THE UNITED STATES MILI-
    2  TARY ACADEMIES SHALL NOT BE DEEMED EMANCIPATED SOLELY FOR ATTENDING SUCH
    3  EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION.
    4    S  3.  Subparagraph 2 of paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 413
    5  of the family court act, as amended by chapter 567 of the laws of  1989,
    6  is amended to read as follows:
    7    (2)  "Child  support"  shall  mean  a sum to be paid pursuant to court
    8  order or decree by either or both parents or pursuant to a valid  agree-
    9  ment  between  the  parties  for  care, maintenance and education of any
   10  unemancipated child under the age of twenty-one years. FOR  PURPOSES  OF
   11  THIS SUBPARAGRAPH, A CHILD UNDER THE AGE OF TWENTY-ONE YEARS WHO ATTENDS
   12  A  COLLEGE  RESERVE  OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS (ROTC) PROGRAM, A MILITARY
   13  COLLEGE, A MILITARY PREPARATORY SCHOOL OR ONE OF THE UNITED STATES MILI-
   14  TARY ACADEMIES SHALL NOT BE DEEMED EMANCIPATED SOLELY FOR ATTENDING SUCH
   15  EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION.
   16    S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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